Levees.org’s Levee Exhibit Hall & Garden

Updated: Mar, 1, 2026.
Working in partnership with the residents of the Filmore Gardens neighborhood, Levees.org built the Levee Exhibit and Rain Garden in New Orleans that opened in August 2015.

The location is the site of the London Avenue Canal breach. Visitors can view six museum-quality exhibit panels housed in a 100-foot covered walkway.

The exhibits tell the full and vetted story about the failure of levees and flood walls designed and built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The text and forty photographs tells the story of all levee breaches and how the associated neighborhoods were affected.

It’s a memorial to the trauma of the levee breaches, a commemoration of an event that was a turning point in American history, and a symbol of the residents’ determination to return home.

Much of the information in the exhibit is new and referenced from a scientific paper released in August 2015 in Water Policy, the official journal of the World Water Council.

The exhibit hall and garden is free, open to everyone during daylight hours.

The rain garden uses native plants which use less fertilizer and reduce the load on the municipal drainage system.

For more about the Levee Exhibit Hall and Rain Garden, see this story by Katy Reckdahl with the New Orleans Advocate.

FOR A MORE DETAILED EXPLANATION OF THE LEVEE BREACHES, CLICK HERE.